UPON THE CULTURE OF CELERY. 295 



The plants also were placed within about eight inches of each other in 

 the rows ; and their foliage was so injuriously crowded, that I believe I 

 might have obtained as large, if not a larger quantity of marketable 

 produce, if only half as many plants had been used. 



I have little more to add to the excellent directions * which Mr. Judd 

 has given in our Transactions for the culture of this plant, except that 

 I believe wide intervals between the rows, and between the plants in the 

 rows, when food and water are abundantly given, will be found beneficial. 

 I also think that in preparing the bed into which the plants are first 

 removed from the seed-bed, considerable advantages will be obtained by 

 covering a thin layer of dung, not in a very rotten state, with about two 

 inches deep of mould ; for under these circumstances, whenever the 

 plants are removed, the dung will adhere tenaciously to their roots ; 

 and it will not be necessary to deprive the plants of any part of their 

 leaves. Younger and smaller plants may therefore be used ; for their 

 growth, under the preceding circumstances, will not be at all checked ; 

 and I need not point out to the experienced gardener, that the younger 

 his plants are, the less subject they will be to run to seed, or pipe, 

 as it is called, in the autumn. 



LXII. UPON THE CULTURE OF THE PRUNUS PSEUDO-CERASUS, OR 



CHINESE CHERRY. 



[Read before the HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, February 2Qth, 1827.] 



THE Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus, or Chinese cherry, has been so recently ~f 

 introduced into Europe, and has been hitherto so little propagated 

 or cultivated, that probably not even its name is known to the greater 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Volume III. page 45. 



f This cherry was introduced from China by Mr. Samuel Brookes, of Ball's Pond, in 1819, 

 and he presented a plant of it in 1 822 to the Horticultural Society. It has since, in two 

 instances, been imported from China by the Society, through the assistance of Mr. Reeves. In 

 the year 1824, it produced a crop of fruit in one of the houses in the Chiswick garden, which 

 ripened within fifty days from the time the blossoms opened. In that year, a figure of the plant 

 in flower was published by Mr. Bellenden Ker, in the Botanical Register, tab. 800, with the 

 name of Prunus paniculata, under the impression that it was the species so named by Thunberg. 

 It received its present name of Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus from Mr. Lindley, in his report on the 

 New and Rare Plants (see Horticultural Transactions, Vol. IV. page 90) which had flowered 

 in the garden at Chiswick, previously to March 1824. It is readily distinguished as a distinct 

 species from the common cherry and the morello cherry, by its bearing its flowers in racemes, 

 and by the peduncles being hairy. It is known in China by the name of Yung Fo, but is only 

 cultivated as an ornamental plant at Canton, where it rarely produces fruit. 



